Chicken Dum Biryani (Resturant Style)

Chicken Dum Biryani- Restaurant Style 

INGREDIENTS -

1. Basmati Rice - 2 cups (soaked for an hour)
2. Chicken - 250 gms

3. Pudhina and Dhaniya patta paste - 3 tbsp
4. Curd - 1 tbsp
5. Refined Oil - 2 tbsp
6. Grounded Garam Masala - 2 tsp
7. Salt - to taste
8. Rose water - 1/2 tsp
9. Kewra Water - 1/2 tsp
10. Food Color - 1tsp with 2tsp milk
11. Brown Onions - 1 Big onion chopped and fried

12. Green cardamon - 4
13. Mace (javitri) - a pinch 

PREPARATION -

Marinate the chicken with curd, pudhina and dhaniya patta paste, 1 tbsp oil, 1 tsp garam masala , and salt and keep it in the fridge overnight.

In a pot boil water. Add 2 tsp of oil, Salt, Green Cardamon, Javitri and the soaked Basmati Rice. Do not fully cook it. Keep it 50% uncooked.

Coat a briyani pot with rest of the oil. Now, in the base of the pot set the marinated chicken pieces. Spread the rice on the top of the chicken evenly. Spread the brown onions on the top of the rice. Cover the Pot with a lid and let it cook for 15 mins on a low flame.

Open the lid and add the food color, kewra water and rose water and a tsp of garam masala. Cover the lid again and keep a hot tawa below the Biryani pot and switch off the gas. Let the Biryani on  standby mode for 5 to 10 mins.

Open the lid, feel the aroma and mmmmmm It's ready to serve. :)

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